Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law and Director, Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Christie S. Warren holds a BA with Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley, a JD from the University of California at Davis and a Certificate in Mediation from the Harvard Mediation Program. Her areas of specialization include Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Post-Conflict Justice and the Rule of Law, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law, Public International Law and International Human Rights Law.
Professor Warren served for sixteen years as a criminal defense trial lawyer in California, specializing in the defense of death penalty cases, before turning to international legal development work in conflict and post-conflict contexts. She has designed, implemented and assessed constitutional, judicial, legal and academic programs in more than 58 countries throughout Africa, Central and East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Newly Independent States, the Balkans and East Timor. She was appointed Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States and served as the Senior Expert in Constitutional Issues on the United Nations Department of Political Affairs Mediation Support Unit Standby Team. She has advised on constitutional issues and processes in Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Somalia, Sudan and Ukraine and served as a Legal Advisor during the Darfur Peace Talks.
Professor Warren was named the 2016 – 2017 Fulbright Schuman Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and has served as Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Visiting Professor of International Law at Sapienza University in Rome. Under appointment by the Chief Justice of the United States, she served as Supreme Court Fellows Commissioner from 2012 to 2018 and is the recipient of the Administration of Justice Award, awarded by the Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association, "In Recognition of Significant Contributions to the International Administration of Justice and the Rule of Law."
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About Christie S. Warren
Christie S. Warren holds a BA with Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley, a JD from the University of California at Davis and a Certificate in Mediation from the Harvard Mediation Program. Her areas of specialization include Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Post-Conflict Justice and the Rule of Law, Transitional Justice, Islamic Law, Public International Law and International Human Rights Law.
Professor Warren served for sixteen years as a criminal defense trial lawyer in California, specializing in the defense of death penalty cases, before turning to international legal development work in conflict and post-conflict contexts. She has designed, implemented and assessed constitutional, judicial, legal and academic programs in more than 58 countries throughout Africa, Central and East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the Newly Independent States, the Balkans and East Timor. She was appointed Supreme Court Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States and served as the Senior Expert in Constitutional Issues on the United Nations Department of Political Affairs Mediation Support Unit Standby Team. She has advised on constitutional issues and processes in Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Somalia, Sudan and Ukraine and served as a Legal Advisor during the Darfur Peace Talks.
Professor Warren was named the 2016 – 2017 Fulbright Schuman Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and has served as Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Visiting Professor of International Law at Sapienza University in Rome. Under appointment by the Chief Justice of the United States, she served as Supreme Court Fellows Commissioner from 2012 to 2018 and is the recipient of the Administration of Justice Award, awarded by the Supreme Court Fellows Alumni Association, "In Recognition of Significant Contributions to the International Administration of Justice and the Rule of Law."
| Present | Director, Center for Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, William & Mary Law School | |
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| Present | Professor of the Practice of International and Comparative Law, William & Mary Law School | |
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Research Interests
Laws of Other Countries, Comparative Legal Systems and Processes, Comparative Constitutional Systems, Post-Conflict Constitutional Processes, Comparative and Foreign Law, Constitutional Law (Non-U.S.), International Human Rights Law, Islamic Law/Shari'ah, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Rule of Law, Public International Law, Islamic Constitutional Law, Islamic Criminal Law, Schools of Islam, Women and Islamic Law, Experiential Learning, Summer International Internships, Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Rule of Law, and Islamic Law
| J.D., University of California, Davis | ||
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| B.A., University of California - Berkeley | ||
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